WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 21, 2007

Today is Wednesday, November 21, the 325th day of 2007. There are 40 days left in the year.

235 _ St. Anterus begins his reign as Catholic pope

496 _ St. Gelasius I ends his reign as Catholic pope

1787 _ Andrew Jackson admitted to the bar

1789 _ North Carolina ratifies constitution, becomes 12th U.S. state

1794 _ Honolulu Harbor discovered

1818 _ Russia's Czar Alexander I petitions for a Jewish state in Palestine

1877 _ Tom Edison announces his ``talking machine" invention

1933 _ First U.S. ambassador to the USSR, W.C. Bullitt, begins service

1935 _ First commercial crossing of Pacific by plane (China Clipper)

1946 _ Harry Truman becomes the first U.S. president to travel in a submerged sub

1968 _ Yoko Ono suffers a miscarriage

1977 _ First flight of the Concorde (London to New York)

1990 _ Signing of Declaration of ``End of Cold War" in Paris